Click on the link below to view 3 days worth of presentations on tracing your Irish family history and Irish History in general. Once you have registered you will have
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National Archives Talks at Back to our Past Virtual
Tracing the history of the workhouse system in Ireland using sources in the NAI
In his presentation, NAI Senior Archivist Brian Donnelly will outline the history of the workhouse system in
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The Irish and the Scottish Connection
Dr Irene O’Brien of Glasgow City Archives will give three presentations on the Irish who went to Scotland in the last two hundred years and will provide a rich sources
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AncestryDNA – Basic Principles for Family History; Combining DNA & Traditional Research Methods
Presented By: Eamon Healy
Synopsis of talk – AncestryDNA is a fantastic tool that can help take your family history research to new levels, but it can be daunting initially. Before
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Tracing your Irish ancestors in Australian records
Presented by: Debra Carter
Synopsis: The Irish did not immigrate to Australia in large groups or during specific time periods. They immigrated individually or a few family groups at a time
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Don’t know where to start on your family history?
Follow this step-by-step guide from Backtoourpast
Military collections from WW1 and other major conflicts are available
With billions of records online at Findmypast, researching your family tree may at first seem a
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Glasnevin Museum – 1.5 million stories to tell
The striking, ancient fir trees at Glasnevin, looking towards the award-winning museum
As winners of Tripadvisor’s Traveller’s choice award in 2013, and listed as one of Dublin’s top 3 attractions, Glasnevin
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A Beginners Guide to Using DNA in Family History
Margaret Jordan advises
When you hit the proverbial ‘brick wall’ in family history research, DNA testing can come to the rescue in many cases and it can help to solve
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Tracing your Northern Irish Ancestors: A Three-step Guide
by Brian Mitchell, Derry Genealogy
Email: genealogy@derrystrabane.com
Background
There are 289 parishes in Northern Ireland (i.e. Counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone). You can identify the civil parishes of Northern Ireland,
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An Post Witness History Museum
One of the inter-active features of the visitor attraction
An Post’s €7 million GPO Witness History visitor attraction commemorates the events of 1916. The attraction is an interactive visitor facility bringing
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